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Shakespeare''s Serial History Plays

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Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Grene is Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. Klappentext A re-reading of the two sequences of Shakespeare's English history plays. Zusammenfassung This book provides a re-reading of the two sequences of English history plays! Henry VI-Richard III and Richard II-Henry V! looking both at their original creation in the 1590s and at modern serial productions or adaptations. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chronology of major serial productions/adaptations; Note on the texts; Introduction: Part I. The Story of the Histories: 1. Serialising the chronicles; 2. Staging the national epic; Part II. Henry VI-Richard III: 3. War imagined; 4. The emergence of character; 5. Curses and prophecies; Part III. Richard II-Henry V: 6. Looking back; 7. Hybrid histories; 8. Change and identity; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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